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do this C..16 Ul. or LG Il , oe oe en ie) J $7.99 U.S./$8.9 y = il) i i sine Fl vais if a @e jimag imagine mace ii There’ no shortage of things you can do with our best-selling PowerBook 1400, either: Play CD-ROMS, surf the web" and send e-mail to your boss back at the office. Incite rubbernecking. Run your own in-flight movie. We didn't build the world’ fastest laptop just to show off. But that’s not to say you can't. Among its numerous talents, the PowerBook’ 3400 is the ideal laptop for presentations. Its awesome speed means faster, more beautiful graphics, and its 12.1-inch diagonal screen is the perfect canvas to display your genius for persuasion. But don't let the 3400’ blinding speed blind you to its other features, Like its hot-swappable expansion bay. It lets you add all manner of drives, whether floppy, magneto-optical, CD-ROM or a second hard drive. All without putting your computer to sleep. To keep you connected, there’ also a built-in Ethernet/33.6 Kbps modem. At the risk of sounding immodest, there's no end to what you can do with the new PowerBook 3400. 70 learn more, visit www.powerbook.apple.com. Or call 800-538-9696 for the name of the Apple reseller nearest you. UL 4 The new Mac OS 76. Now, wherever your mind goes Enhance your perfor The job of a great operating system is to get out of the way. To let you fashion ideas, unencumbered by process. Nothing does that job better than Mac” OS 7.6. It not only raises ‘intuitive’ to new and exciting heights, it’s also a major advance in the ease with which powerful new functions can be deployed on your desktop. Now you can bring live web pages into your OpenDoc com- patible documents and have them automatically updated. New your computer will follow even faster: ince on your Mac OS c can open PC files (including Windows 95 files) without the applica- tions in which they were created. Mac OS 7.6 also makes the installation of an operating system simpler than it has ever been: in just a few steps you'll have access to QuickTime’ applications, Apple® Open Transport, the OpenDoc” program, Cyberdog™ software’. . . all the latest advances from Apple. Enrich your ideas by enhancing your computer. Buy the pleas- virtual memory management allows you to launch ’) ingly affordable Mac OS 7.6 at your local Apple software your applications up to 40% faster, and your “Print” = reseller or call 1-800-482-6376 ext. 1421. For more commands will execute up to 35% faster” And you information, visit us on the web at wwwapple.com. ws. In Canada please call 1-800-361-6075 ext. 260. « ‘All Rights Reserved. Appl, the Apple logo, 75. Lasertiter 8.4 printing software, Cyvetdog & OpenDoc for Power PC only. © 1996 Cars Corporation ickTime ae registered trademarks and Cyberdog is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc 36 48 54 56 How to Automate Your Mac There's no end to the things you can make your Mac do automatically—but you need to know how. Here’s our eight-step guide to creating macros. BY JOSEPH O. HOLMES Become a Control Freak at Home Teach any ol’ Mac to turn on your lights, start your coffeepot, water the lawn, make a fake dog bark, and more. It costs less than you think and takes only a few minutes to set up. BY DAVID REYNOLDS Introducing the MacAddict Remote Sensor Probe Use our M.A.R.S. probe to snoop on us any time of day. With our exclusive software on The Disc, you can control a QuickCam located in our offices. If you only want to watch what's happening, just go to our Web site. BY DAVID REYNOLDS This Old Mac You asked for it, you got it. We tell you everything you need to know about upgrading the LC, LC ll, and LC lll. BY T. KELLEY BOYLAN 64 &6 Make a Phone Message Tired of the same old dull answering machine message? Whip up something a whole lot better on your Mac. Put a Movie on Your Site Last month, we helped you prepare a QuickTime movie for your Web site. This month, we help you get it up and running. I'm seeing stars! And moons! And Apples! Oh no, I'ma macro addict! Larry may be a hunka- hunka burnin’ love, but this is ridiculous. 8 Editor’s Note a ks a A tribute to kids—they’re scary-smart these days (the ones who read ; vin, Steve MacAaddict, anyway). ph 0, Holme ti 12 Letters It just doesn’t end. ..end...end...end...end...end...end.... 26 Get Info Apple’s new pipsqueak PowerBook (and we mean that in the bestest way), the future of OpenDoc, our latest poll, the MacAddict index (with apologies i tichard Lesovoy to Harper's), and more. jrandow 32 Cravings Six dee-lightful products that have us practically quivering in anticipation. im Reviews Infini-D 4.0, speedy StarMax computers, the QuickTake 200, X-Plane, bunches of CDs, kids’ software, and a galaxy of other neat stuff, too. 90 Ask Us Than Understanding error messages, tips on Apple’s Extensions Manager, and curing the “Can’t shut down” blues. Plus a new Easter egg and solving the g mysteries of the Startup Items folder. 94 PowerPlay =e lshing, li Mac games are getting harder to find on retail shelves. Find out what one oY : group of developers is doing about it. ; sae 112 Shut Down a The bulletin board of the bizarre. 1 6 Zoom around in our all-new 3D interface to find the mysterious UFO, the destruction of a PC, a contest for winning Deneba Systems’ Canvas 5, and tons of shareware and demos. ‘STANDARD CLASS US. POSTAGE PAID http://www.macaddict.com ee ia 24 We're starting the summer with a bang—you'll find special Web events See S 2 for Father's Day, the summer solstice, and all the regular days, too. Check ches La Z e q our daily calendar for Web events coming to you soon! 4 MacADDICT Vert Award-Winning RECORE OCR Drag & Drop files from In Tray & stack them in folders. Type notes & highlight important info. tly ‘Tee Software! 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Raf Anzovin, for example, creates whim- sical, high-quality 3D ani- mations—good enough that he scored an internship with Specular International (makers of Infini-D and now a part of MetaTools) and recently finished a graduate- level college course on 3D animation and digital video at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Raf just turned 15. Then there's John Willis, the 18-year-old who decided to start the MacAddict Booster Club (a fan club for readers of MacAddict). John took the initiative to contact us to see if we minded, and then he set up a Web site, doing the design, content, and maintenance on his own. He created T-shirts and sends out regular electronic newsletters. If you haven't seen it yet, the site’s at <http:// members.aol.com/mabooster/home.html>. It’s clever and funny, despite the occasional misspelling (sorry, John—couldn’t resist). Andy (14) and Joey (12) Cooper sent us a wonderful replica of our mascot Max, made out of wood and pipe cleaners and held together with screws. Cool enough, but Max can act as a disc holder, magazine holder, paperweight, or any other number of things (you'll see this Max next month in our Letters section). The boys also sent us a Perhaps it’s just that the easy-to-use, personable Mac has made it easier for kids to create and communicate. 8 MacADDICT diagram showing how to assemble Max (although I didn’t even have to look at it to put him together—these guys should know that Mac addicts never crack a manual), Andy and Joey, by the way, are part of a family with eight kids, ranging in age from 15 to two months, all of whom are home-schooled. Andy knows C++ and now is teaching it to Joey. We've also received numerous requests from kids who want to write for us or who want summer jobs. Unfortunately, we can’t fulfill the major- ity of these requests—but not because the kids lack talent. John Czarneicki, a 16-year-old budding playwright who goes by the pen name Trevor Copland, sent in some wonderfully warm, well- written columns with general observa- tions on the Mac. Others have submit- ted logical, grammatically correct essays. Still others are blooming poets (Apryl Dannemiller, 12, wrote Mac Rap: “Yo, | am a Mac—I’m so very fine, Laptops hang around me all of the time...”) or cartoonists or artists or entrepreneurs (Philip Neustrom, 13, is CEO of Dead Marshmellow [sic] Software, a company that makes cus- tom cursors). Not all the kids are kids, either. Huh, what? Some of you adults were so desperate to win the eMate in our April contest, which was intended for preteen Mac addicts (Apr/97, p29), that you tried to enter the contest anyway, plead- ing with us that you were kids at heart, or some other such nonsense. Sorry, but you couldn’t hold a candle to the entries we got from the real kids. (To find out who won—and what it took— check out page 28 in this issue). I'm still not sure that kids are, indeed, smarter today. Perhaps it’s just that the easy-to-use, personable Macintosh has made it easier for them to create and communicate. Either way, I’m sure that the world is going to be left in very good hands. —Cheryl England Those Smart Kids! Raf Anzovin cre- ated the cover art for our third issue ‘on his Mac. Raf just turned 15, The 18-year- old John Willis designed, set up, and regu- larly updates the MacAddict Booster Club site. In fact, a lot of the sites we love are done by kids. Sean Bach, 12, sent in this cartoon entty for our Win an eMate contest along with his list of Mac versus Windows comparisons (for example, the Mac; a machine gun; Wintel: a peashooter). Here’s the logo from a Software busi- ness run by 11- to 13- year-olds. GEO Philip Neustrom is an elderly 13. Prince George, Virginia, high- schooler Michael Watson created this cool image. He calls it Total Mac. 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Just drag & drop - Presto! Personal Page writes the HTML for you. If you've never created a web page before, Presto! Personal Page makes it easy. Download it today! So why is it your parents still dont get Ever since the day you first wrapped your fingers around a crayon, you've been driven by the need to create. The way you create, however, has changed beyond recognition. Or at least beyond Mom and Dad’ recognition. Apple’ Macintosh’ computers have always understood people who create. In the words of LD. Magazine, “The designer-friendly quality that characterizes the Mac is deep in the machine” Now, with our newest Power Macintosh’ lineup, it’s even deeper. We understand your need for speed. ‘The faster your computer, the more time you have to experiment. That's why we created the Power Mac* 9600/200MP with dual PowerPC” processors. It blows away a PC with dual Pentium Pro processors running Windows NT?*In fact, Adobe’ Photoshop runs what you do fora living? 50% faster on a Power Mac:* Which translates into 50% less time staring at your screen and waiting for your computer to finish retouch- ing photos, manipulating images or applying filters. Valuable time you could be spending actually doing all those things. We understand your need for flexibility. Some days you need to add memory. Some days, an expansion card (or three). With a Power Mac 8600 or , 9600 you won't need an MIS person, or even a screwdriver to do it. Push a button and they open up simply and gracefully, placing the logic board at your fingertips. So you can do what you need to do and get back to doing what you love. = We understand iad need to see how graphics will look in Windows. Nowyou don't have to go out and buy a PC just to see how web sites and graphics you've created on a Mac’ will look in Windows’ Just add a 166 MHz Pentium PC compatibility card, and your Power Mac can run Windows 95 or Windows 3.1 applications. You can also access a Windows network and exchange files with clients and other less fortunate folks who happen to use Windows. For an even better understanding of the computers that understand you, visit us at www.powermacintosh.apple.com. Or call us at 800-538-9696 for the name of the Power Mac reseller nearest you. And then, if you haven't lately, call your mother. wwwpowermacintosh.apple.com letters GET ON, GET ACTIVE. Talk to us and talk to. other Mac addicts on the Web site. Letters on the obscure, really weird stuff, and—finally—an end to the bugs. L This Month WRITE TO US: MacDudes, MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Suite 40, Brisbane, CA 94005, or send email to <letters@macaddict. com>. FOR CD-ROM PROBLEMS: <bttp-//support. imagine-inc.com> FOR SUBSCRIPTION QUERIES: please call our customer service department at 800-666-6889. You’rRE KIDDING, Ricut? Ricut? I just wanted to tell you that contrary to popular belief, all we Canadians DO live in igloos, and we plug our Macs into the water. No, really! We dig a hole in the ice and drop the ends of all our electrical cords into the hole. See, when the fish swim around down there, they cause a hydrostatic charge in the water, and thus we get electricity. It’s the same kinda thing as the dams, but we get electricity for free! Canada is great, eh! Unfortunately, we live in domes of ice. My ex-neighbor Mukhatai Ingowhre Menaianes got a Pentium (*Barf*!) thing, and the little cooling system \ in it didn’t really work, and it melted the ice of part of his igloo, and the igloo collapsed and smooshed him. The com- puter was still going (‘cause it's a PC and doesn’t know how to turn itself off) and melted the ice the igloo was on, and the entire thing, being denser than water, sank to the bottom of the ocean. Poor, poor, Mukhatai should have gotten a Mac. —Vy Tri TRUONG Aww, Man. Poor Dupe. Please send me a bodyguard!!! At recess I used to get wedgies because I am a Mac user. The wedgies stopped when the weather got too cold, but I need a bodyguard before it starts happening again! PLEASE HELP ME! —ApaM BuNov, Fort McMurray, ALBERTA, CANADA I was looking around in the April issue of MacAddict when I came across Blobby Man. ‘on page 64. How can I compete with some- thing like that? I've decided to drop out of computer animation. I think I'll be a custo- dian instead. Do you need someone to empty your trash? —Parrick J. Ketty Oon! A Wisecuy! Yuck, Yuck, YUCK. I just looked up at my monitor after launching my Internet connection, and—I kid you not—a spider crawled across the screen. He’s now sitting right above the menu bar next to the clock and has been there for more than 15 minutes. I guess this means Tve been spending too much time on the Web??? —Russ ‘% — ALman, Euceng, OR We’it ALERT THE MeEbDIA I saw a news item on your _ Web site about the obnoxious Apple-bashing done by some guy named “Jon Swartz” at the San Francisco Chronicle. Let the record state that I am “John Swartz,” a devout Mac addict, and in no way related to this self-serving fool. It is easy to see, however, why he no longer works at MacWeek. Please be certain to not confuse me with this person—I don’t want to find that my MacAddict subscription suddenly has been canceled, or that my CD starts arriving with hate mail on it. Remember, I’m the “John Swartz” that spells his name cor- rectly!!! —Joun A. Swartz, Mac Appict ror LIE THANKS FOR SHARING I had just gotten my newest issue of MacAddict and had to use the restroom. I took my mag with me so I could get a little reading done in my spare time. I got through the letters when I realized that I was out of toilet paper. For one fleeting moment I looked at the pages that I had already read. In the back of my mind there was a voice that said, “Those pages are probably very absorbent.” The thought was quickly ban- ished from my mind, and I had a terrible itch the rest of the day. —Josu Srewarr No Kippine, Pat Speaking of the Internet, I remember when you HAD to learn some basic Unix com- mands to do anything online. Transfer speeds of 5K to 10K (that’s BYTES, not bits) per sec- ond were the norm. No “personal home pages,” no IRC chat. Just lots of no-life geeks huddled over their glowing, green screens (the sheen of which would wear off into their complexions after a while), debating the pros and cons of the latest version of Moria (any- one remember Moria?). I almost long for those days. We were an elite group. You had to know how to use a computer, how to maintain proper etiquette, and the “emoticons” were so fresh they were funny. The first time I saw “>:-(” I nearly busted a gut. Now everyone and her cousin is online and NONE OF THEM HAVE ANYTHING WORTHWHILE TO SAY! God, Tam so tired of these pubescent know-it-alls who (1) have NEVER been laid, (2) make constant sexual innuendo, and (3) react like I just puked on their dogs when I suggest there might be an alternative to Windows, SoundBlaster, and .AVI files. But, then again, what do I expect from a country that picked VHS over Beta? Sorry, did I get off on a rant, there? I do that sometimes. —ANpREw MULLEN A Famity? Wuat’s THat? If you were to use ResEdit to replace the “Welcome”, “You've got mail”, etc. sounds in AOL with your family’s voices, would that mean you were a Mac addict, or just someone with too much time on his hands? What if that were the only way you could remember what your family members sound like? —Mike Gaviand Sure Dip OK, this isn’t REALLY a “You know you’re a Mac addict when...” but more like a “You know too much about your Mac if...” “You know too much about your Mac if you know why you can’t put a colon in a file or directory name in the Finder. ..” —Davip CorNwELL, PS. It’s because the Finder uses the colon (:) to signify a directory change when writing out the path to a file (for example, Hard Disk:System Folder:Control Panels:Kalid- escope [sic]), which, in reality, is the file’s ACTUAL NAME! If you were to put a colon in the file’s name, your Mac would think it was another directory change and go insane, *cause the directory doesn’t exist. But you already knew all that, didn’t you? Sure Does On page 10 of your April 1997 issue, Kevin Johnson wrote to you about classifying cockroaches as bugs. He claimed to be a “bio-geek” and seems to think that qualified him to correct your classification from bugs to orthopteran. Nice try, Kevin, but cock- roaches are in the Order Blattaria, not Orthoptera. Did you folks at MacAddict imagine that you might incite a taxonomic war with the cockroach bit? Frankly, if you want to call them bugs, call them bugs. As long as you keep getting the Mac details right, who cares? By the way, does this letter make me a “bio-geek”? —JonarHaN P. WENGER You're both bio-geeks. Orthoptera lumps roaches, grasshoppers, and crickets together. Blattaria further splits the classification to “roaches only.” Sure Don’t I ask you: Have you no heart for us poor orthodontically handicapped Mac addicts? My mom won't let me read MacAddict when 1 have my orthodontic rubber bands in because sooner or later I start laughing so hard the bands snap and smack the inside of my lips. PLEASE place a disclaimer on the front of the mag cautioning against reading while physically restrained in any way. — Justin “THe Mac” REESE Wuo Askep You? I think you guys find the strangest things to do with your time. —Juntor Garcia Oh, yeah! And one other thing: You guys are weird. —Mario GONZALEZ By the way Nikki, you have a nice butt. — JORDAN VADNAIS Wuat Took You So Lonc? I used a much-customized TRS-80 color computer for 15 years, but the world has moved far beyond an 8-bit processor. When I decided to upgrade, I went to the bookstore to check out computer books—there were 231 books on how to make Windows 95 work and three on Macintosh. You don’t have to hit me with a brick—t bought a Performa 6400/200. —Garry W. SPENCER Ur Smarter ’N Us I just finished your article on the PowerBook 3400 (Apr/97, p56) issue. I had a similarly frustrating journey in trying to locate a Torx 8 (“Torqued Off,” p56) to open my Your parents may not understand what you do for a living, But we know some experts who do. Apple Authorized Value Added Resellers understand exactly what your business needs. They offer custom-fit Apple*based solutions for hardware, software, consulting, networking, training and more. For more information and the VAR nearest you, call 800-538-9696 or visit var.apple.com. = ©1997 pe Comper Arts read pe and tpl age ae retardant letters Duo 230. Success finally came when I con- tacted Jensen Tools in Phoenix, Arizona (800- 426-1194, http:/Avww,ensentools.com). They have many different Torx sizes from which to choose. I finally settled on a little set (Catalog No. 720-335) complete with ratchet handle that included Torx sizes T5, 'T6, 'T7, T8, T9, T10, and T15—all for only $13.95 plus ship- ping costs. —Davip GriswoLD Reader Brian Flaherty adds that Techni-Tool (610-941-2400, _http://www.techni-tool. com) also sells Torx 8 screwdrivers. Both Jensen and Techni-Tool offer overnight delivery. Reader Vicki Aardema notes that she found one at a car dealership. As for your reflection about the lengths people in other states will have to go to get the correct tools to disassemble their PowerBook 3400: Try Wal-Mart. In a $9 toolkit produced by Vermont American (10-piece Electronics Screwdriver Set) you will find the elusive T8 (8-bit). The real surprise is that the TS is the LARGEST of the three Torx drivers in the kit. By the way, T8 is the size used in the PowerBook 140 (145, 145B, 150 et al.) for the mounting screws for the hard drive, modem, etc. (That is how I know about the little rascal!) —Cuaries J. Parker, Winter Haven, FLorma I was in OfficeMax this afternoon and I came across a computer toolkit for $19.95. It included the Torx 8 bit. Just thought that you'd like to know—Ricu Taompson Several years ago, I had a roaring need to open my Duo 230 to install more memory and there was not a Torx 8 screwdriver in all of Oklahoma City or Tulsa. Out here in the Heartland, the simplest way to get a Torx 8 is to buy a Torx 10 at Sears and then take a nee- dle file and file the Torx 10 blades down to fit. It took about 30 seconds with a needle file, or you can use a metal fingernail file or emery board and it will take less than two minutes. —Kent Tabor Sorry, You’RE Beyonp Our HELP OK, so my magazine is only two days, seven hours, and 45 minutes late. I am trying to stay as calm as I possibly can. The mailman is afraid to come by ‘cause I have been harassing him for the last two days. I have been messing up at work because I can’t con- centrate. I am just worried about my little magazine and that cute little disc that comes 14 MacADDICT with it. I thought talking about it to co- workers would help, but instead 1 just snapped and smashed the only PC at work, while everyone cheered me on. I come home for lunch every day just to check the mail. I tried putting in one of the old discs, pretend- ing that it was the new one, but after four hours my brain remembered seeing some of the stuff before and went into a frantic, spas- tic hurl. But I am staying calm now even though I think I am getting a little disc-lexic. 1 have been spending a little time on the Web at the MacAddict page as temporary relief, but 1 don’t know how long I can continue—they seem to have a problem with that at the office. Please, HELP me. —Garru A. Lerts Ux, No REASON Um...why did you put Steve Jobs in the Insane? —Dan Tomasci Just ONE? Imade a bet with my two friends Mark and John that the first one of us to get his letter published in MacAddict will receive a free car wash every day for a week. Publish my letter first and I'll give you one of my washes, — ‘Jerrrey ScHULER Jeffrey, it goes against our every moral fiber to accept such blatant attempts at bribery. (Does that include a wax?) Ciuck, CLuck, CLuck Hey you silly chickens! I appreciated the article on Bryce (Apr/97, p48), but you had one boo-boo on your hi-res render secret. ‘The method you describe works, but it is lim- ited by the available RAM on your Mac. A bet- ter method is to set up the proper proportions for your screen render, then when you want to do the final render, go to File-Render to Disk. You can specify size in pixels or inches and (yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus) the reso- lution. The other advantage to this is that Bryce renders every pixel completely in one pass rather than using its progressive render method and then dumps it to disk. You aren’t limited by the amount of memory in your Mac. Tve used this method to render 8.5-x-11 and 11-x-17 images at 300 dpi. I still use Photoshop for CMYK conversion and any other tweaks (including converting to TIFF or EPS), but it makes the actual render a lot eas- ier to deal with. —Ken Tryon, Lyynwoop Communications, RocH NY Hey, So Do We! I wanted to comment on the dude who says the magazine smears when you touch it with greasy hands.... DUDE! Always wash your hands before reading your pristine new issue, and hey, I've had no problems and I read mine in the bathtub every night! —Suana Cannapay We’p Say Not My dad and I love reading every bit of your magazine. We are both die-hard Mac addicts. My dad is more of one than I am. I hear him say that Macintosh is to Windows 95 what a real woman is to a transvestite. Not sure, but I don’t think he likes Windows. —ALAN FINNIE, 12 YEARS OLD. WELL, THaT’s A REAL KNEE-SLAPPER It was a Friday evening and I found it diffi- cult to to stay awake. This changed, though, when I kept giggling to myself about a funny joke I heard from a (fellow) passenger. “Windows 95 is so user friendly,” she said. 1 chuckled all the way home. —Nick Myers, Onrinpa, CA Introducing the MessagePad 2000, the only handheld computer you can actually use. fall the bancdeld computers, only the MessagePad 2000 ofes sharp, crisp backlighting and a 16-lvel, ‘The MessagePad 2000 gives you more flexibility, ‘igh-resolution gray-scale screen that rotates on com- thanks to its two PC slots (otber handhelds have How much can you do in three to ‘mand. Which means you can alway see your work nly one slo) So, for example, you can dedicate six weeks? 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Chase away the Monday blahs with this week's happy fun site! 24 MacADDICT Isn’t it time to switch your Mac to reliable high speed nationwide Internet access? Its time to graduate from that miserable online service you’ve been trying to use. EarthLink Network offers you reliable, high-speed nationwide Internet access with all the goodies you expect, and more, for $19.95 per month. It's your Internet. 1-800-94-EARTH COMPLETE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS OR MAC E-MAIL FREE WEBSITE — FREE 24 HR HELP LINE — NEWS PERSONAL START PAG AOL GRADUATES GUIDE — OVER 600 LOCAL DIAL-UP NUMBERS — NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR™ [ER INTERNET BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FROM WEB HOSTING TO HIGH SPEED ACCESS. ma ner EVIE] = Yaa! The Net Magazine pournelles Yahoo Nee tert Cheee Anard eect of ihe Bese indus Oa the Mac Addict CD ©1997 Eanbink Network, Inc. Trademarks are property of their respective owners. All rights reserved get info News, trends, and other very valuable information that you will want to know. COMET STRIKES UNITED STATES THE 2400c PROVES APPLE'S PowerBook division isn’t a fly-by-night operation. slim, trim PowerBook is coming your way this summer, and it’s going to be hot. Weighing in at a litle over 4 pounds, the Power- Book 2400c (code-named Comet) will make its debut in May in Japan and then will head for the United States in late July. Think of it as Hooper Light: all the power of the 3400 but now with half the weight. The PowerBook 2400c has at its heart a 180MHz PowerPC 603e and 256K of Level 2 cache. The base model will ship with 16MB of RAM (expandable to 48MB through a single RAM expansion slot); a 1.3GB hard drive; a 10.4-inch, thin-film transistor, 800- x-600 active-matrix display; IMB of VRAM; a lithium-ion battery (rated at two to four hours); a Duo-style power supply; and the cutest little external floppy drive this side of the Oort Cloud. At 4.4 pounds, the 2400c is the lightest "Book to come out of Cupertino in several years—lighter even than the Duo 2300c, which weighed 4.8 pounds. Despite this light weight, the 2400c performs as well as a 3400 in basic benchmarks, partially because the two share the same basic architecture. So if Apple didn’t cut the performance, where did 26 MacADDICT it cut? The 2400c doesn’t have an internal floppy or CD-ROM drive, which accounts for some lost weight. By moving the floppy drive to an external device (which itself weighs less than half a pound), the 2400c stays thin. Although the 2400c is based on a PCI archi- tecture, it doesn’t have a PCI expansion slot, which eliminates on-board Ethernet (@ la the 3400's expansion r card). We've also heard rumors Think 0 Hooper STEALTH about a drug that makes the Comet 10 percent thinner— without exercise! Despite the lack of media devices, don’t | think the 2400c is an island unto itself. Although it doesn’t include the Duo’s dock- ing capabilities, the 2400c does include a full range of ports: a modem/printer port, Hale-Bopp (actual comet) Creates a lot of hubbub when it appears Co-developed by IBM Reflects sunlight brightly Suicides attributed to its arrival Battery life Zoom video support Last appeared an ADB port, a SCSI port, a floppy drive port (hey, haven't seen one of those since the Mac Plus), a 16-bit video-out port (mirror-mode only, like the 3400), 16-bit sound-in and sound-out ports, and two Type Tor one Type III PC card slots. Through the PC card slots, users can add a modem or MBER A LIGHTWEIGHT Ethernet capabilities. f How much is this little bun- fitas dle of flame? $3,499, which : includes a light software bun- Light. dle: ClarisWorks, Apple Internet Connection Kit, Apple Remote Access Client, Eric’s Solitaire Sampler, and the Apple Location Manager, to name a few. One last tidbit: The 2400 is made in part by IBM. The times they are a changin’... —DR | PowerBook 2400c | (code-name: Comet) or the last last four years, Apple pushed OpenDoc as the latest, | lem wit greatest technology—one that would revolutionize the software industry. The promise of OpenDoc was that small develop- ment houses could create small software parts, package them with other parts, and sell them as solutions that would compete with larger companies’ software suites (read: Microsoft Office). As a consumer, you could mix and match components from dif- GEVEIC( ferent companies, tailoring them to your own specific needs. We believed Apple. So did a lot of small developers who have spent the last year or two putting together very ingenious parts. As it took longer and longer for com- pelling OpenDoc parts to be available, ActiveX, the Internet, and Java took industry mindshare away from OpenDoc. Apple would have faced spending beaucoup dol- lars to make OpenDoc a success—dollars Apple couldn’t afford to spend. So, as part of its restructuring efforts, Apple will no longer fund OpenDoc and Cyberdog development. CI Labs, the group co-founded by Apple and | IBM to oversee OpenDoc and to validate parts as Live Objects, will be dissolved at the end of June. Apple is, however, encouraging develop- ers to rewrite their software in Java and also develop it for Rhapsody. The only Bill Gates (check one only) Just misguided scenario is that Java Beans—the component part of Java—won't be available on the Mac for another few months, and even then, it will take more time for developers to rewrite their programs $ because Java Beans is not as fully featured as OpenDoc. Rhap- sody is even far- ther out on the horizon. OpenDoc develop- ers are die-hard Mac heads, the kind of folks Apple needs for Rhapsody devel- opment. We talked to some of these developers (see “Get Parts” at right) to find out how they're dealing with Apple's plans. ‘The good news is that as of Mac OS 7.6, OpenDoc is part of the Mac OS, will be for the next year at least, and should work in Rhapsody’s Blue Box. Other technologies, such as AppleScript, have been ignored by Apple for years but are still viable for everyday use. Never fear. If you invest in software that requires OpenDoc, it will work. —MS and KT s Bill Gates—you know, the guy at the top of Microsoft's org chart—evil? Or is he just misguided? Some people have accused Microsoft of announcing future products just as their competitors ship the same thing. The Mac versions of cer- tain productivity programs have lagged behind their Windows brethren. Bill Gates has been buying up media providers and deliverers left and right. He's out to rule the world! On the other hand, maybe he just doesn’t have anything else to do with all that cash. You tell us at <http:/ww.macaddict.com/poll.htm|> or at Bill Gates, clo MacAddict, 150 North Hill Drive, Suite 40, Brisbane, CA 94005 by July 15, 1997. ‘We'll run the results in a future issue. USE ADRENALINE’S NUMBERS&CHARTS to make spiffy 3D charts. Adrenaline bills this program as more fully featured than ClarisWorks and faster than Microsoft Excel. Get Parts © Apple: OpenDoc 1.2 and Cyber- dog 2.0 are final versions. Several MacAddict staffers use Cyberdog 2.0 and are quite fond of it saying the name of the email sender. © Adrenaline Software: The company plans to make a Java version of Numbers&Charts and to eventually bring it to Rhapsody. Because Adrenaline makes heavy use of the QuickTime Media Layer, the company should be well poised to take advan- tage of Rhapsody. © Digital Harbor: Registered owners of the OpenDoc-based incarnation will receive a free upgrade to the upcoming Java-WAV. © MetaMind Software: Dock’Em will be moved to Java, though the company thinks Java needs serious work before it can replace OpenDoc. © Hutchings Software: Brad Hutchings wants to keep OpenDoc alive; he has posted a proposal to take over Apple's OpenDoc Framework. © Corda Technologies: While the company intends to begin porting its parts components to Java, it also points out that OpenDoc will still be supported in the next couple of Mac OS releases, so users “should not be shy” about purchasing Live Objects. MacADDICT 27 get info Make the Most of Megahertz My A John Ueland A604e CHIP IS BIGGER, hungrier for power, and more low—300MHz machines! We all W=- the fastest computer, right? So we should all go get a Power Mac 6500/300, right? Not so fast, bucko. There's more to a motherboard than clock speed. Megahertz represents the number of cycles per second a chip can run. During each cycle, the processor moves data around in memory and performs operations. Although megahertz measures how quickly a Home Found for eMate We received many charming entries for our eMate 300 contest (Apr/97, p29) and were hard- pressed to pick the winner: Clay Coop- er of Bend, Oregon (age 9). Clay made a mock laptop com- plete with trackball (marble), latch (Velcro tabs), and keyboard (pencil on paper). Here’s an excerpt of the poem onscreen: “Oh my. golly! Oh my gosh wish | had my own Mac- intosh.” Other entries con- tained great poems, too, but Clay's presentation won us over: We're suckers for duct tape. —KT 28 MacADDICT expensive...but faster than a 603e chip at the same speed. | specific processor can, well, process, there’s a lot that goes on in between it and you. Say Sam can solve six addition problems per minute in his head and Fred can solve only four. So Sam is 33 percent faster. But if Sam can write down | only two answers per minute while Fred can write down four, to someone waiting to read the answers, Fred seems twice as fast. ‘The same thing happens in your Mac. A | “fast” processor doesn’t necessarily mean a | fast Mac. A better measure is how quickly a machine can move data in and out of different kinds of There’s more to storage space. The most acces- sible memory location is Level 1 cache—the most-frequently used data get placed there. After the processor uses up the LI cache, it starts to put data in Level 2 cache, | which is on a separate chip on the mother- board. When the L2 cache is full, the proces- sor has to store data on the hard drive, which | is relatively tough to access. Bus speed then becomes a problem. Bus speed measures how quickly information can be transferred from the drive to the proces- sor, from the processor to the L2 cache, and | a motherboard than clock speed. so on. Currently, bus speeds range from 40MHz to 60MHz—a lot slower than processor speeds. Processors run at multi- ples of bus speeds, from two to six times. Here’s where it gets a little esoteric. The smaller the multiplier, the faster the system. With, say, a 300MHz chip on a 50MHz bus (a multiplier of six), the processor could run six operations while it waits for the piece of data it needs to make the trek from memory. ‘The last factor in the speed equation: A megahertz on one flavor of chip isn’t the same as a megahertz on another flavor. For instance, with all the factors we men- tioned being equal, a 604e clocks in about 30 percent faster than a 603e at the same megahertz. Or think of it this way: A 604e runs neck-and-neck with a 275MHz 603e, due to the different chip. So the next time someone checks out your processor speed and tries to kick sand in your face, feel free to respond with, “Really, computer speed is a complex matrix of many variables, including... ” Or maybe, “It’s not how fast it is, it’s how you use it.” —DDT’ Multiprocessing Apps Multiply ultiprocessing, multi- tasking multithreaded, —and don’t forget multi- media. It seems as if mu/ti has been multi- plying all over the Mac industry. Let us help you with at least one of those terms. A multiprocessor Mac has more than one CPU chip in it. For a while, DayStar Dig- ital was the only purveyor of such systems, but now you can get them from Apple, UMAX Computer, and Power Computing. Developers now are embracing the multi- processing API built into Mac OS 7.6, which allows them to take advantage of multiple processors and make their software really screaming-fast. Programs that are especially well suited UST LIKE WABBIT: to multiproces- sor Macs also eat up processor cycles. An email client spends more time waiting for you to type a message than it does hogging the CPU. But programs such as Adobe Photoshop, 3D renderers, scientific modelers, and video- and audio-editing programs beg for every cycle you can give them. About 50 programs—including Deneba Systems’ Canvas, MetaTools’ Kai's Power Tools, Fractal Design Painter, and Adobe Premiere—have been released or are in development to exploit the added power. For more information, visit DayStar's multi- processing apps page at <http://vww.daystar. com/Superfast.Apps/Aps.html>. —KT INCLUDEs: For Windows models: Ulead® iPhoto Express” (Windows® 95/NT compliant) photo-fun software to 4 make greeting cards calendars * announcements + Windows wallpaper *and more 13 By For Macintosh models: Ol MicroFrontier Color It! 32-bit e image-editing/paint software Windows or Mac models: Visioneer® PaperPort document 0» management software. Drag-n- drop scans to OCR, fax, e-mail Wvisioneer Printer software » DLE a oh T 4 P AP ERPORI For Windows or Macintosh models: @P Caere’s OmniPage Limited Edition OCR software for scanning and convertis HIMITER H uel AMION\ Pages of text into digital files that can EDITION be edited For Windows or Macintosh models: Microtek’s award-winning ScanWizard™ scanner controller “arguably the best in the business. according to PC Magazine (3/4/97). Adjust color tints, contrast, brightness, remove halftone dots and more. See enhancements on screen before Top MReh, finalscn rs Is onicD-ROM!, Available in Windows or Macintosh models Works with : Windows® 3,1x, 95 & NT! MacOS Drive It With The Top Down or Up & Enjoy The Scenery. Microtek’ new and incredibly fast ScanMaker® V300 color scanner is a sporty little model that’ small enough to park on your crowded desktop, yet powerful enough to scan and place virtually any colorimage or document directly into your computer. Capture breathtaking color photos, documents, even 3-dimensional objects in seconds. And its full-loaded with software at an amazingly low sticker price. New Technology from Microtek Engineering. The ScanMaker V300 features many new advances in scanning technology including the FlexScan™ Lid, a unique hinge design that allows the V300s lid to remain flateven when scanning books and other 3-dimensional objects; stay upright to align documents on the scan bed; or quickly detach for scanning oversized documents. A Parallel Port Cable is included for Windows models for quick-and-easy / plug-n-play installation, so there’ no need to pry open your PC to install an interface card. And with Microtek’ Zero Reflection Design Technology™ you get denser, sharper color through optic and hardware design that minimizes light “bounceback” whenever you scan. ‘Want More? For the Microtek reseller nearest you or more information about the new ScanMaker V300, call Microtek Sales at 1-800-654-4160, For information about scanning or Microteks other great products, dial our AutoTech fax back system at 310-297-5101 or point your Web browser to our award-winning Web site: www.microtekusa.com. SéaliMaker V300 RT ONLY $229! = Suggested Street Price 24-bit color depth «Incredibly fast single-pass scanning #300 x 600 dpi optical resolution ©4800 x 4800 dpi enhanced MICROTEK Better Images Through Innovation. Price enonadisUS suggested sveetprice. Bundled software and use’sanualsareon ScanMaker VGl0CD-ROM Reta packaging of sufwere depictedis note. Thefoloning ae rademarks or registered ademars other respective companies Microtek ScanMaker, ZeroRlion Design Technology Flx-Scan Lid, and ScanVicardof MiretekLb, Inc Windows of Micrsof Corporat, Macintosh of Apple Compute, ne. OmaiPage Lintd Editon of Ceee Corporation I-900-535-725;PaperPr.fVioner, Ic; Color! of MieroFoni nc: iPhotxress of Ulead Systems, ne. Al ther rademars or reitredtrademark are the prope oftheir respaciveholers. Prices speiicatons and software bundles ar subjectto change wthoutntc. VSDOPCES? ver the last few years alarming trend in versiot tion. Once upon a time, we’ digit changed only to refl hauls, and the second di VERSION NUMBER + T (68 (Name by year scheme abandoned in ’89.) patience for x.1, x.2, x.3 iterations—a couple of new filters or a toolbar is good for at least a 0.5 jump, and whole-number oyer- increments are preferred. To the software ature giants we say: Take a chill pill, or by mid- 1999 you'll be up to version 95. —MS al 1.0 10° 1.0 FG. e 4.0 1.0 11 OST ee ae i YEAR 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 [BB Adobe tustrator Apple OS JB Netscape Navigator Aldus (Adobe) FreeHland Ql WHY THE ) A PC The Mac has a real desktop. On a Mac, if you have multiple partitions or other mounted volumes, you can simply drag a file or folder from any of them and place it on the desktop. Under Windows 95, if you drag a file from a partition or other drive onto the desktop, Windows 95 actually copies the file to a folder on the boot drive. Thus, you can end up with multiple copies of an item—a potential version-tracking problem. Worse, if your boot volume is full, you can’t drag anything to the desktop. 30 MacADDICT [BBsshoba systems’ FileMaker; Claris FileMaker Il and FileMaker Pro UNCLE MAX WANTS YOU! Despite what CompUSA thinks, there's a lot of stuff that comes out for the Mac. We here at MacAddict are always on the lookout for talent, so if you think you have what it takes to write a review, let us know. “I like games” is not sufficient qualification. Right now, we need people who are knowledgeable about scientific appli- cations. If you know a Fourier trans- form from a volumetric integral, please send a cover letter (and clips if you have them) to: Reviews, Mac- Addict, 150 North Hill Drive, Suite 40, Brisbane, CA 94005. The MacAddict Index Price in dollars of the “network computers” Apple should be making for kids in schools, according to Larry Ellison: 500 Price in dollars of the laptops Apple should not be making for CEOs, according to Larry Ellison: 7,800 Dollars Apple has spent on restructuring during Gil Amelio's tenure as CEO: 334 million Gil Amelio's 1996 pay in dollars, including salary, bonus, and other compensation: 6,822,701 Number of days between Apple's announcement of a 300MHz Mac and Motorola's announcement of a 300MHz Mac compatible: 10 Percentage of CGI authors who program in AppleScript: 14.4 Percentage of all Internet traffic produced by PointCast servers: 17.8 Number of Montgomery County, Maryland, middle schools featured in a March Washington Post story as case studies of schools switching to Windows: 1 Number of Montgomery County's other 29 middle schools that still use Macs exclusively: 29 FOCUS ON: APPLE STOCKHOLDERS! Shares of Apple stock held by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (as of April 1, 1997): 6,233,550 (5.0%) Shares of Apple stock held by American Express (as of December 31, 1996): 10,765,915 (8.6%) Shares of Apple stock held by American Express (as of February 10, 1997): 2,017,721 (1.6%) Shares of Apple stock held by Apple Chief Financial Officer Fred D. Anderson (as of October 31, 1996): 0 Shares of Apple stock held by father-of.a- MacAddict-editor Frank Echler: 100 (0.00008%) Shares of America Online stock held by Apple (as of January 31, 1996): 4,000,000 (4.6%) With slight apologies to Harper's. Sources may be found on the MacAddict Web site. —MS Only A Fool Tries To Solve Problems With | Handguns. ..Large Caliber Automatics Do The Job Much More Quickly! “Absolutely the best first-person game of the yea, bar none...Duke Nukem is the undisputed king” 4) Boot Magazine “Gives players something they can’t get elsewhere: A hero with an attitude.” Wall Street Journal “kk AAA” (5 out of 5 stars) PCGames “ee tee” (4 out of 4 stars) Computer Life “Duke is king.” Computer Gaming World “A perfect 10” van for Macintosh® . wg iPiae =e Maco go0.80b-002 Ret un? mm cur System Requirements: Any Macintosh with a 68040 or higher microprocessor, 8MB RAM, color monitor and CD-ROM dive. Also accelerated. Cravings Six of the top products that we can’t wait to have, use, and toy around with Sylet SyQuest Technology cravings he life of an industrial spy is never easy, what with all that paperwork and those little yapping dogs. Well, that’s tough enough, but to put the burden of storing all that stolen audio, video, and files on high-density floppy disks—that's just too much to endure. Before you quit your day job and take up freelance work for the IRS, check out SyQuest’s SyJet drive. This removable-cartridge hard drive may be the answer to all your storage needs. For only $399 Global Village for an internal SyJet (or $499 for Communications an external one), you can store two hours of high-quality audio, 80 minutes of broadcast-quality video, or 1,500 24-bit pictures ‘on one 1.5GB car- tridge. That's right— 1.5 gigabytes. The SyJet is no slouch in the speed department, either. With a sustained data transfer rate of 7MB per second and a seek time of less than 12ms, the SyJet performs like a hard drive. Best of all, SyJet cartridges are cheap, typically costing 8 cents per megabyte or less. Call 510-226-4000, or point your browser to <http://www.syquest.com> to discover a better way to store all that borrowed data. four basement is a museum of dead-end technology. Whenever two competing gadgets come on the market, there you are, at the head of the line, salivating at the prospect of putting down your hard-earned lettuce for a new toy. You pick ‘one, and sure enough, everyone else chooses the other, leaving you high and dry. Well, that doesn’t have to happen with the new 56Kbps modem technologies, thanks to Global Village. The company offers x2-compatible and K56flex-compatible modems, and you can choose the one your ISP uses. But what about compatibility? you may ask. Both modems offer 33.6Kbps data speed and 14.4Kbps fax speed, so you'll still get a speedy connection no matter what kind of modems you connect to. The YOUR CHOICE OF SPEED DEMONS. PSST! WANNA BUY SOME STORAGE? Mathematica 3.0 Wolfram Research fou've been itching to try out those new Grand Unified Theory equations and finally show Global Village duo also offers upgradable flash ROM, Caller ID, and fax software. With a price of only $219, you may just want to buy them both and be sure you'll never be left in the technology Lace » GLosaLV" that simpering wimp Einstein who's boss, but —_| you've lacked the tools. Specifically, you failed ninth-grade algebra, and frankly, the scientific community won't take you seriously because of that. Sheesh. Make one mistake, and they never forget. Well, with a little help from the newly debuted Mathematica 3.0, they won't forget your brilliance, because now you can concentrate on your theo- Ties and leave the math to your Mac. Mathematica 3.0 includes 250 new functions, speedier compilation, and high-quality editable mathematical expressions for when you choose to print your findings. If you're looking to publish your results on the Web (and who isn't nowadays?), Mathematica 3.0 includes methods for producing Webs-publishable documents. For information on how you can take your rightful place in the mathematics community, call Wolfram Research at 800-441-6284, or go to <http:/ww.wolfram.com>. Now if you can just remember where you put your algebra note backwaters again. Wade through the Beta tapes littering the floor and contact Global Village at 800-736-4821, or surf to <http://www.globalvillage.com> for more information. KNOCK OFF EQUATIONS WITH ASTONISHING EASE. 32 MacADDICT TurboTV Integrated Micro Solutions © question about it: Northern Exposure was the best show ever broadcast, not that those fools at CBS ever truly understood that. But you're not bitter. Not since a local independent UHF station started broadcasting the syndicated reruns. You could even put a stop to your letter-writing campaign, but for one small prob- lem: The show airs daily at 2 p.m., when you're tied to your Mac in your cubi- cle, and your supervisor doesn't share your passion for all things. Don't take it ‘out on your co-workers. Instead, get TurboTV from Integrated Micro Solutions. 125 CHANNELS ON YOUR DESKTOP. The TurboTV PCI card brings video to your Mac without involving the CPU, which means you can continue to work while Chris talks about the intricacies of the American electoral system. For only $169, the TurboTV is cable ready, capable of receiving 125 channels, and supports stereo sound playback and recording. You may even be able to hook into the company’s closed-circuit TV cameras and see what your supervisor does during the sacred hour. 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Along the way, we also will give you tips on how to automate other applications and tasks. Once you're hooked on macros, you'll find them so useful that you'll sorely miss them if you ever need to live without them. MacADDICT 37 look at a selection of shareware utilities that | peripherals) with help smooth the shutdown and startup | a press of your processes. (See “You Needn’t Be Present to | Mac’s power-on Win!” below.) | button. It’s less | well known that Let’s Do lt! | Powerkey lets you You have three main alternatives for | set shutdown and automating shutdown and startup. Any of | startup times and |™ = vent Te | Event Tig the three will work just fine. does other tricks |[rower an >] [oan such as check for ((ezren cars| 1. The Simple and Free Route: a crashed Mac. . 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